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West of the Divide · Beat 228 · permalink

Forest

51:49–51:55 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 51:5251:52

Play from 51:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 150 · shots 350–350. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a suit jacket, tie, and wide-brimmed hat, seated on a horse visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man is visible on horseback, outdoors. [frame:1]
Seen
horse, suit jacket, wide-brimmed hat, tie
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: confrontational or earnest; themes: encounter, pursuit, western setting; style notes: medium shot, black and white, natural outdoor lighting, static framing

A man in a suit and hat sits on a horse outdoors. He speaks to someone off-screen, saying he has been trying to meet them for some time.

“Well, boy...” 51:50 · “I've been trying to meet up with you for some time.” 51:52 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from West of the Divide (1934) at 51:52 (passage 51:49–51:55); US record: No renewal found

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